 | Abraham John Valpy - 1823 - 578 pages
...and commonwealth to bave a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men, and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them...active as that soul was, whose progeny they are."* But, Sir, it is quite superfluous to proceed further with these authorities. The universal sentiment... | |
 | 1825 - 582 pages
...demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest judgment upon them, as malefactors : for books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potencie of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve,... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...and commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men ; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them...books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve... | |
 | 1826 - 548 pages
...and commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men ; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them...books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve... | |
 | 1826 - 548 pages
...and commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them...malefactors. For books are not absolutely dead things, but dp contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay,... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pages
...and commonwealth; to have a vigilant eye how Books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, Imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors; for books arc not nbsolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny of 'life in them to be aa active as that soul... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1848 - 590 pages
...but that published at Rome in the nineteeth year of this nineteenth century. If, as Milton says, " books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny of life in them," the noblest of them all will find their peers on the pages of the Prohibitory Index. Scarcely a score... | |
 | 1832 - 528 pages
...more exquisite than the following : " Books are not absolutely dead things, but doe contain a potcucie of life in them, to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they doe preserve as in a violl the purest cfficacie and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.... | |
 | Samuel Ward - 1834 - 84 pages
...and Commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves, as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them...books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency o! life in them tii be as active as that soul whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve,... | |
 | 1834 - 536 pages
...thoughts the best way. SIR W. TliMFLX. BOOKS are not absolutely dead things, but doe contain a potencie of life in them, to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they aie; nay, they do preserve as in a viull the purest efficacie and extraction of that living intellect... | |
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I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors. For books are not... 
